Modern Man At The Crossroads : The Encounter Of Modern Science And Traditional Knowledge

This work explores the hidden assumptions that define every aspect of modern scientific knowledge and shape every facet of the modern world, assumptions that amount to a kind of secular faith in order to bridge the gap that exists between proven facts and unprovable mysteries. The search for an understanding of the truth and for a universal synthesis of knowledge must reach beyond the edge of a strictly provable and scientific knowledge. This search must also express a willingness to cross unknown frontiers and expand inner horizons in order to come to terms with the essential knowledge of God that lies within the human heart as well as the heart of the cosmic universe. The moment of departure has arrived and the moment of decision is at hand. Modern man finds himself suspended between two distinct and dynamic world-views that have the power to transform lives and change perceptions of self, each offering alternatives that create a division between the world of science and the world of religion that will lead future man in opposite directions if they continue to proceed on separate parallel tracks. One is the path of the cerebral mind; the other is the path of the intelligent heart. Both paths demand our attention with their exotic myths of the origin of man and the true nature of reality, and both lay claim to the topography of the mind, will and heart of man with a tenacity that is hard to resist.